Yes. Yes Peebo, atheism is a lack of belief not a belief, and as thus, has yet to inspire anything but apathy. Religion can cause wars, just as hatred of religion can. Just as secular totalitarian atheist regimes can. Wars, death and suffering are caused by violence. Violence can be propped up by whatever cause suits your need. Can an atheist be violent? yes. Can a theist be violent? yes. That was my only point for Simon.
I have no problem saying theism contributed to lots of needless death around the world. I believe secular society has caused more for lots of various reasons. Simon though just made an assertion, without support and I didn't feel it was an equitable analogy.
I have no problem saying theism contributed to lots of needless death around the world. I believe secular society has caused more for lots of various reasons. Simon though just made an assertion, without support and I didn't feel it was an equitable analogy.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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